If the players from Zebre and Ulster are still scratching their heads about what hit them in their United Rugby Championship encounters against the DHL Stormers and Vodacom Bulls respectively, no one can blame them.
As written on SuperSport.com, If there is one thing that the Wallabies learned from playing against the Springboks this year, it is that there is no such thing as uncontested line-out mauls. The match officials really don’t care how many props you have on the field when Eben pulls one out of the air and that Bok pack binds around him.
The Springboks deserved all the credit they got for some pretty innovative maul presentations during their home season. They also deserve credit for spreading the love.
The Bulls scored from every U9B prop’s favourite lineout move – the short one to the very front. The Stormers scored after running a couple of NFL wide receiver-like lines behind a screen of players. Either way, it was clever and it worked.
May there be a lot more from where this came…
